Policeman dies of stabbing wound by suspected Islamist radical - Shepherd Digest Magazine

A Tunisian policeman, Riadh Barrouta, stabbed by a suspected Islamist attacker died on Thursday, the country’s Interior Ministry has said.

Barrouta was stabbed in the neck on Wednesday near the parliament building in the capital, Tunis, by a man described by the interior ministry as a “radical Islamist.’’

Another policeman injured in the same attack was also taken to hospital. The attacker was arrested shortly afterwards.

In recent years, Tunisia has witnessed a string of Islamist-linked attacks, most of them claimed by Islamic State.

Authorities have recently stepped up a large-scale clampdown on suspected extremists across Tunisia, in an effort to launder the North African country’s international image.